Word: carbonations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then that I found the subtitle of my book. Nasser symbolized a "search for dignity" throughout the Asian-African world. He emerged from the grass roots, from the silt of the Nile Valley. He was determined to make his people feel proud to be Egyptians instead of posing as carbon copies of Frenchmen or anyone else...
Detroit is aghast. The auto industry's nightmare is a requirement that all 1975 model cars show a 90% reduction over 1970 emission standards for hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide. Detroit would have to guarantee emission controls on each new car for 50,000 miles-or pay a $10,000 fine on each vehicle found polluting...
...bill goes far beyond existing government and state laws on air-quality control. In its present form, it sets national standards for ten air contaminants like carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide. Polluting industries would have to meet these standards in about five years. The bill also requires the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to prohibit hazardous emissions (asbestos, cadmium, mercury and beryllium) not covered by the air-quality standards. It orders new industrial plants to install antipollution devices, denies Government contracts to companies that violate air standards, and allows private citizens to sue polluting industries and individuals...
...been there only a year when Ebony Publisher John Johnson offered him the editorship of Negro Digest. The publication had been founded in 1942 as a carbon copy of the Reader's Digest, just as Ebony imitated LIFE, and Jet, another Johnson publication, was a black substitute for Coronet. Despite such well-Digested features as "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," the imitation collapsed in 1951. To keep abreast of the new black militancy, Johnson revived it ten years later and turned it over to Fuller...
...statement "Curbing carbon monoxide in cities is more important than saving caribou in Alaska" [Aug. 3]: More important to whom? The validity of this question would become clear if we could set ourselves apart for a few minutes and look at Homo sapiens as just another animal species. Then ask ourselves if humans became extinct tomorrow, who would miss them? The birds, the fish or the caribou? Would it be more likely only the rats and the disease bacteria that are able to live...